So it’s the half year “weeklies” post – a milestone to be set for sure. I’ve had some good response out of these “weekly roundups” and I thought I’d take a moment to answer a quick question as to why I do it that “Jeff” sent in.

Hank, nothing against your blog, (I’m a subscriber and read daily!) but I don’t really see the point in the Weekly Roundups. It seems like all blogs do them, but what’s the point? You’re just farming out your Google PageRank and likely not getting any linkback from them. Why do it?

Jeff – I understand your point and think I can lay it out pretty well actually.

Posting Weekly Roundups help ME find content to write about. When you’re having writers block sometimes the best thing to do is search your niche around the blogosphere. There are a lot of ideas that people cook up that will help get my creative juices going!

Yes, I try to comment on them as much as possible, but sometimes I skip the comment on someones post and just use a trackback to better clarify my response to them. Most sites have trackbacks enabled, so they’ll see my comment in that form.

I will always go and check out someone that has linked to me (it shows who has linked to you in your Dashboard in WordPress) and I will 99% of the time thank them or add content to their post; in so doing I assume most folks will do the same, bringing them over to my site to possibly be a new subscriber.

Many readers don’t have time to search through the whole blogosphere to find good articles and many trust my opinion on what is worth checking out week to week. I’m happy to provide it to them because I’m going there anyway and enjoying the post, so I just consolidate it for everyone else to view.

Thanks for the link Hank! I like doing a round-up so others can see the types of sites I read. I don’t expect people to only come to my site. I want my place to be interactive so I shoot out things I like to help build up th PF blog community. Keep up the round-ups! Thanks!

Disclaimer

I am not a financial expert. I am good with my money and I would like to be able to someday give better financial advice to my kids than I got when I was young. Don't take anything I say as GOLD. Take it with a grain of salt and form your own opinion of how you should use your money.